I’m not normally into the list and report kind of thing which is the blog equivalent of the horrible email forwards my aunts and uncles send me in the off chance that bill gates will send them $100 and their crushes will give them a kiss, but this piqued my interest this morning.
I’m up to 68 of the hundred and a bunch of the ones I’ve not knocked out are really easy to get, fugu notwithstanding.
Instructions: 1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea 3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile 6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush 11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi 15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses 17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese 26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda 31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl 33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea 38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal 44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu 47. Chicken tikka masala 48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin 51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone 54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini 58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst 65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs 67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis 69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette 71. Gazpacho 72. Caviar and blini 73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu 77. Hostess Fruit Pie 78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong 80. Bellini
81. Tom yum 82. Eggs Benedict 83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. 85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash 88. Flowers
89. Horse 90. Criollo chocolate 91. Spam 92. Soft shell crab 93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish 95. Mole poblano 96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor 98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
Say hello to my “new” 1973 VW Superbeetle. Since I’m done with school, I figure I need another hobby to occupy my time. That hobby is apparently restoring this car.
It needs a metric fuckton of work. First step, stop the rust from spreading any further. The dude at the shop says it runs but I dunno if I agree at this point.
Just settling in after 5 days in San Juan. The trip was everything I could hope for. I can’t think of any reason to write full paragraphs at the moment so here are my highlights:
This weekend my homey Antoine and I went up to Monticello to visit some friends, reflect on life’s journeys and just chill in the cut. We decided (or I should say, the GPS decided for us) to take the scenic route up around Jersey’s Skylands through High Point State Park and the like. I have a lot of memories of the area from my childhood, whether it be rafting in the Delaware Water Gap, going to see drive-in movies (Copland and Air Force 1 double feature FTW!) at the Fair Oaks theater in Port Jervis, or just the typical summer and winter chaos at Great Gorge/Action Park/Mountain Creek. The area is really special in a backwoods sort of way, especially in the autumn. For some reason there’s a lot of freaky stuff up there, whether it be the numerous Clinton Road Legends, the Albino Village in Clifton, the Gravity Hill in Pompton Lakes, or whatever other hyped up nonsense we’d read about on the internet and decide to drive an hour and a half to check out.
I have a particularly strong set of memories from a pair of trips that my friends and I took to a hokey haunted house in the hamlet of Hamburg (shit, too much alliteration sorry) called the Ginger Dead castle. A quick trip to the site of the castle bought back some serious nostalgia this weekend. Hit the jump for the full story and a few pics.
My buddy Erik brought me back a present from a recent trip to Barcelona. Happy Pills!
The “pills” are Haribo Happy Colas. Talk about a happy overdose. The unbearable lightness of being ain’t gonna get me any time soon, that’s for sure. Behind the pills is an aspirin painting from the lovely folks over at Wants For Sale. They’re an artist couple that paints items and then prices the paintings at the cost of the item. Best $8.99 I’ve ever spent!
